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Total number of records: 310

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Books and printed items305
Archives5

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Brotherton Collection183
Leeds Russian Archive16
Herbert Read Collection10
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society8
English Literature5
Liddle Collection4
Business Archives2
Cookery Collection2
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture2

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working class310
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education8
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communism7

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Fabian Society (Great Britain)10
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Cobbett, William (1763-1835)7
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Cole, G D H (1889-1959)6
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevitch Graf (1828-1910)6
Chadwick, Edwin (1800-1890)5
Kydd, Samuel5
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The Christian and civic economy of large towns (v.1)

Chalmers, Thomas (1780-1847)

1821-1826

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Etat des pauvres, ou, Histoire des classes travaillantes de la société en Angleterre; depuis la conquête jusqu'à l'époque actuelle, etc. Extrait de l'ouvrage publié en anglais par Sir Morton-Eden, par Larochefoucauld-Liancourt

Eden, Sir Frederick Morton (1766-1809); La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric duc de (1747-1827)

An VIII de la République [1800]

Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 17914.1.

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The uses of literacy : aspects of working class life with special reference to publications and entertainments

Hoggart, Richard (1918-2014)

1958

First published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1957.

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Attempts in verse

Jones, John (1774-); Southey, Robert (1774-1843)

1831

Published later under title: Lives of Uneducated Poets, to which are added Attempts in verse, by John Jones... By Robert Southey.

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A dream of John Ball : and A king's lesson

Morris, William (1834-1896)

1896

A dream of John Ball first appeared in the Commonweal, 1886-87; issued in book form, 1888. A king's lesson, a story based on the life of Matthias Corvinus, also appeared in the Commonweal, Sept. 18, 1...

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Cobbett's two-penny trash : or, Politics for the poor (v.1)

Cobbett, William (1763-1835)

1831-1832

Vol.2 has no title-page.

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Cobbett's two-penny trash : or, Politics for the poor (v.2, July 1831-July 1832)

Cobbett, William (1763-1835)

1831-1832

Vol.2 has no title-page.

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Cobbett's poor man's friend, or, Useful information and advice for the working classes : in a series of letters addressed to the working classes of Preston

Cobbett, William (1763-1835)

[1827]

Published in parts, nos. 1-4 from August to November 1826, no. 5 in October 1827. Caption title.

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The future of democracy : an address by Lord Haldane

Haldane, R B Haldane Viscount (1856-1928)

1918

"Delivered at a meeting under the auspices of the Workers Educational Association, Coventry Branch, in St. Mary's Hall, Coventry, on 13 April, 1918".

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Richard Buckley Litchfield : a memoir written for his friends

Litchfield, Henrietta Emma Darwin (1843-1929)

1910

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Village politics : addresses and sermons on the labour question

Stubbs, Charles William Bishop of Truro (1845-1912)

1878

I. The labour question in 1872 -- II. A strike for wages -- III. The arbitrator -- IV. Poverty and religion -- V. Liberty and association -- VI. Education -- VII. The agitator -- VIII. The landlord --...

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A volume of poetry and autobiography compiled by John Bedford Leno.

Leno, John Bedford

c.1892-94?

A volume of poetry and autobiography, in the form of manuscript and printed proofs, compiled and heavily corrected by the author. Comprises: From one end of the volume (1) 'The People's Edition of Joh...

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